Listed Building record MDO30133 - Great House, East Orchard

Great House is a 17th-century two storey house, with walls of ashlar and brick and with a thatched roof, with an 18th-century service wing on the east side.

Great House Farm. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 83461649) Great House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 15 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(5) GREAT HOUSE (83461649), of two storeys, with walls of ashlar and brickwork and with thatched roofs, is of the 17th century, with an 18th-century service wing on the E. In the original W. range the three-bay W. front and the gabled S. wall are of ashlar, with weathered and hollow-chamfered first-floor string-courses. The W. front has casement windows of four square-headed lights in the upper storey; in the lower storey the windows probably were once uniform with those above, but they now have 19th-century sashes; the central doorway has a plain stone surround. The gabled S. wall has a small blocked oval window on the ground floor and blocked square-headed openings above; the gabled N. wall is of brickwork and has no openings. The E. wing has walls of chequered flint and stonework in the lower storey and of brick above. Inside, the plan of the W. range appears formerly to have been of class F, but the range has been shortened and the presumed N. bay has gone. The main ground-floor room has an open fireplace and a six-panel ceiling with deeply-chamfered intersecting beams. The stairs, in the through-passage on the S. of the chimneybreast, are of the 17th century and have moulded close strings, square newel posts, moulded handrails and turned balusters.’

<3> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 1 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206033 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 15 2022 10:38AM